Assuming that you're referring to the excerpt from "My Father Writes to my Mother", the statement that best describes the overall impact of the setting would be: Mother feels empowered when she is in the company of her sisters and cousins.
The mother grew up in a culture where women need to be subservient to her husband. Meanwhile, her sisters and cousins seem to have a different perspective for women's role.
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D he has to gather up his courage to speak to his nose-thats a weird story-
Is there a passage we can read to further understand this?
